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...point proposal issued by the "Trail of Broken Treaties" calls for the U.S. to honor its treaty commitments and to abolish the BIA, substituting an alternate agency that would revitalize Indian-U.S. relations...
...same time, AIM is also fighting a war against hundreds of Indian Tribal Councils, which it claims are only puppets of the BIA. The attack on Richard Wilson's Oglala Council and the takeover of Wounded Knee was not a caprice. AIM and Wilson have been at odds since Wilson's election 11 months...
...Washington battle came to a climax just five months ago, when 500 Indians took over the BIA building on 19th St. and Constitution Ave., three blocks from the White House. The militant group held the BIA for six days, leaving after President Nixon established a Federal study group to examine the effectiveness of the BIA...
...December 1, 1972, one month after the BIA takeover, the Interior Department called for the resignations of Louis R. Bruce, commissioner of Indian Affairs, and John O. Crow, the deputy commissioner...
Bruce, a full-blooded Indian, came under fire from the Nixon administration for remaining in the BIA building during the takeover. AIM leaders respect Bruce, but they think Crow is an Interior Department bureaucrat appointed to "watch" Bruce...